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Win Tickets to Stanford Live’s 2019 Season

Posted by KDFC Staff · 1/1/2019 12:00:13 AM

Enter below for your chance to win a pair of premium tickets to three selected 2019 Season performances at Bing Concert Hall at Stanford Live. Music, dance, theater, and more in the heart of Silicon Valley. With over 100 performances presented year-round, Stanford Live is your source for live entertainment in Silicon Valley. From classical music stars in the beautiful Bing Concert Hall to jazzy nights in the Bing’s underground cabaret, there’s a little something for everyone to enjoy. Winners will receive a pair of VIP tickets to see pianist Yefim Bronfman on January 26th, the Brentano String Quartet on February 8th, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet on May 5th.

One of the world’s most acclaimed pianists, Yefim Bronfman has a career as a concert artist that is matched only by his other accomplishments as a soloist. He debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1989 and Avery Fisher Hall in 1993, having won its prestigious Avery Fisher Prize in 1991. That year, he and violinist Isaac Stern gave a series of joint recitals in Russia in Bronfman’s first public performance there since age 15, when he emigrated with his family from Tashkent to Israel and then to the United States.

Lamentations, a centuries-spanning compendium of songs and compositions, fulfills an ancient tradition, says Brentano violinist Mark Steinberg, of hiring professional mourners to help create catharsis. Stories within the works can help give form to grief, so that it becomes a distinct entity instead of occupying the bereaved’s whole being. At the Bing, Brentano performs Purcell’s “Dido’s Lament,” Bartók’s Second Quartet, Shostakovich (from his Lady Macbeth of Mtensk), and Haydn’s Seven Last Words.

The acclaimed St. Lawrence String Quartet, a beloved linchpin of Stanford University and Stanford Live, presents its Sundays with the St. Lawrence series, a matinee array of chamber outings in many modes. In May, it’s all SLSQ, all the time with works by Haydn and Brahms, as well as the West Coast Premiere of a work by Stanford professor Jonathan Berger.